A federal appeals court on Monday tossed out a lower-court ruling that banned a North Carolina charter school from requiring girls to wear skirts. Charter Day School, a public charter school in Leland, N.C., that serves elementary and middle school students, was sued in 2016 by parents who objected to the dress code. But the ruling does not flatly allow for reinstatement of the dress code. Instead, it orders the lower court to review whether the dress code is a violation of Title IX, the federal law that bars sex-based discrimination in education. ABBOTT’S EXECUTIVE ORDERIn a dissent, Judge Barbara Milano Keenan, an appointee of former President Obama, said the ruling barring the dress code should have been flatly upheld.

Source: Fox News August 10, 2021 14:26 UTC